7 Lies, Lies, and More Lies Ruth and I have shared the contents of this chapter a multitude of times in many churches. We have never escaped unscathed. This chapter reveals what we say to each other and what we believe in those dark hours of the night. At the same time, these are not often the things that we talk about out in the open. Often church people applaud Ruth and me when we reveal to them some insight from another culture. Yet when we apply the same cultural insights to our own Western