Silberklang recalls his first meeting with Franklin Littell at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He tells that while he had grown up in an Orthodox Jewish home and was doing graduate work on the history of the Shoah, Littell was a believing Christian, an ordained Methodist minister, a professor of theology with a penetrating analytical mind, who had turned his incisive critique inward on his worlds--Christianity and academia--with a challenge to confront the recent past. His passion for his subject was infectious, his knowledge of theology and history encyclopedic, and his speaking style engaging. For those who entered his classes or lectures with firm beliefs on a subject, his approach was challenging, for his students needed to think critically and openly. Moreover, he observes that listening to him and discussing a subject with him were invigorating experiences. Whoever spent just a bit of time in his company came away a changed person.