* Rob Norton, Hymns of the Early Syriac Christians, on the Odes of Solomon, at "Discovering Early Christianity"
* Patrick Flynn, Is Aquinas's God an "Intelligible Blank"?, at "The Journal of Absolute Truth"
* Allan Arkush, In Memory of Judah Maccabee, at "Jewish Review of Books"
* Kevin Blake, The Penicillin Myth, at "Asimov Press", on the puzzles in Fleming's account of his discovery. In fact, I think Hare's proposed account is probably close to being the right one; I disagree with Blake about Root-Bernstein's being simpler and less improbable.
* Miguel Garcia-Godinez, Making the state responsible: A proxy account of legal organizations and private agents acting for the state (PDF)
* Sally Thomas, Today's Poem: The Burning Babe, on St. Robert Southwell, at "Poems Ancient and Modern"
* Victoria, How to write a Christmas poem in early modern England, at "Horace & Friends"
* A tribute to the novelist Michael Flynn, at "Prometheus Blog" (hat-tip)
* Flame & Light, The Holy, on Otto's Idea of the Holy
* Yoon H. Choi & Alix Cohen, Feeling and Life in Kant's Account of the Beautiful and the Sublime (PDF)
* Lu'Ella D'Amico, Till This Moment, I Never Knew Myself: Reading Austen's Pride and Prejudice During Advent, at "Church Life Journal"
* Lincoln Michel interviews Brandon Taylor on his recent novel, Minor Black Figures, at "Counter Craft"; I thought that this was a much more interesting author's interview than most author's interviews are.
* Travis McKenna, Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts (PDF) -- this was a very nicely developed argument about how 'laws of nature' function in scientific explanation.
* Brad Skow, The first on the scene, at "Mostly Aesthetics", on the grounds of parental duty
* Amod Sandhya Lee, Who were the Magi?, at "Love of All Wisdom"
* Harald Høffding & Hans Halvorson, Høffding on Subject and Object (PDF)
