Tip-Off #9 - Lost and Found

"Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?" - Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi"

I took a year off from Oberlin before graduating to determine whether I wanted to pursue a doctorate in religious studies and become a professor or, instead, go to divinity school and become a pastor. At the time my father was the pastor of a substantial international, interdenominational church in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. This church--the Uni…