​​Why Befriend Your Opponents? Bavinck on 'Critical' Friendship On having friendships with people who hold different beliefs than you do. A vanishing good in polarized times. "A truly sharp thinker, they believed, needs a close friend whom he can trust, but who does not share his most basic assumptions. Bavinck once described their friendship as that of 'opponents who are also friends.'" https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/bavinck-critical-friendship/