At a staff meeting a few weeks ago, we were discussing the tag sale at the manse and our music director, Ed Schmeidecke, shared the story behind the term “white elephant.” Most people are familiar with the expression "white elephant." It refers to something that is expensive but is no longer useful to us. "White elephant" comes from the way that the king of Siam once got revenge on people. He did so by sending them a white elephant as a gift. At the time, white elephants were