I joked with the Rev. Dr. Caroline Carson, a.k.a. “Parson Carson,” the newly installed rector of Beach Haven’s Episcopal Church of the Holy Innocents, that she had stolen my intended lede for this story about her.

Her short bio, published on the church’s website, said she was originally from Charleston, S.C., had attended seminary at the Sewanee School of Theology at the University of the South in Tennessee, and that her most recent home had been in New Orleans. So I assumed she would have a southern accent, making her stand out in the Queen City.

She doesn’t – a testament to the old saw about what assuming can do to “you and me.”