Introduction—Beginning Again PART I: THE FRAMEWORK 1.The Language of 'Risk': Setting the Story 2. Compounding Risk: The Move Toward 'Risk Environments' 3. Reluctance to Risk: The Story of the U.S. Christian Church PART II: COMPLICITY 4. Mind Over Matter: Risk and Stigma in Early Operating Theologies 5. Dirty Details: The Making of 'Risk Environments' at 'Home' and 'Abroad' 6. What Race is Your Disease? Africanizing 'Dirt' 7. Two More Considerations: Poverty and 'Social Sin' 8. Interlude: The Making and Unmaking of the World PART III: COMPLICITY 9. Roots of Resistance and Possibility: A Theological Anthropology 10. Risk of a Different Kind: 'Risk-Sharing' Through Listening and Confession 11. Risk of a Different Kind: 'Risk-Sharing' Through Faith, Hope, and Love Appendix A: HIV 101 Appendix B: Handling Some Terms Appendix C: A Brief Political History of HIV & AIDS in the United States