Open Halls Project

Good Day!

I want to reiterate something that the OHP really strongly believes in here, just so its out in the open. We want to support and help our Military Heathens. We want to support this group, without getting involved in the drastic inter-organizational politics of the heathen world, as much as possible. If you have the best interests of heathen military families at heart, we will generally work with you. We have occasionally made exceptions to that rule if we feel that a group is largely detrimental to the overall goal or health of the heathen community.

In the long run, the reason the OHP was started was to help our military heathen folks without being held back by conflicts that have a longer history than needs to be said here. We appreciate all the effort that many folks from many organizations and kindreds and groups have done to help us. We are more than welcome to honor the help that those folks gave us, and we are more than willing to point out where, if anywhere, we felt they didn’t help as much as they could have.

In the long run, we want to thank those who serve in the military, we want to thank the families that give their time, love and honor to their service member, and we want to enrich the military heathen community and the community at large by honoring these folks.

That’s all for now!

Josh-OHP

After some fun discussions with Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried of The Norse Mythology Blog, he asked Cat and I to do an interview with him regarding The Open Halls Project.

You can find that here

I hope all of our folks are well. Other than this we have nothing new to report. Still working on making connections for folks and advocating for Heathen issues were we can.

Please contact us if we can offer you a hand with anything!

Please take a moment today to show your appreciation for those that have served in the Armed Forces of any and all countries.

I make an effort to honor any that have chosen to dedicate themselves to military service regardless of political or country affiliation. I might not agree with the policies of a party, or a state, or an ideology but I do honor and respect those that choose the profession of arms. Even those that have a weapon pointed at me, I respect them for putting themselves in harms way. It takes a certain level of guts to pick up a weapon for whatever reason.

Specifically to those on the US side though, I’ve stood side by side with good women and good men. I raise a glass to you in honor. I think of the challenges we face together and I smile, knowing that I am proud to call you my battle buddies.

Many of us, including myself are on the post military road now. Some of us are in school working to get our degrees to vault ourselves into the next stage of our lives. Some are working in a new industry or in a similar one to their training. Some of us are not doing as well as any of us would like. Let us ask the gods, our ancestors, and the warriors that have passed in service to help us in our pursuit to make all Veteran’s lives better!

On the political side of things, let us make sure we call on our Senators, our Congress people, and our President to continue their support. This is non-partisan, they need to support those that go to war for them.

Keep strong everyone!

Hail to those that serve.

For a very short while, we were members of The Troth. During that time, one of the things we began was the request to have Asatru added to the Religious Preference list for the US Army. Though this hasn’t worked out the way we wanted it to, there is at least one option for Heathens on that list now. The Troth.

Also, while members, we were asked to help look at a book that Diana Paxson was writing regarding Military Heathenry. Though Cat and I do not agree with Paxson on many finer points of Heathen thought, we certainly didn’t want to pass up a chance to help make her work more helpful; it that was within our power to do so. Just a few days ago, that book was made available on the Troth’s Lulu page.

Though neither Cat or I has had the chance to read the completed book, it might be something folks would be interested in.

A full review will appear at some point on this page.

Hello,

To any that follow this website, thank you for doing so. We don’t update enough, and honestly, I blame Facebook for that. We would like to thank the Heathen Freehold Society of British Columbia for nominating us for an award for working on The Open Halls Project.

Honestly, we certainly do not do the OHP for any sort of recognition. We only hope that we are helping Military members and their families with any issues that we can assist them with. That is the mission, and one that will be completed, regardless of the medal count at the end of the day. If we can help you, let us know, we will do so, or at least we will try!

Also, the US Army recognition of Asatru and Heathen as Religious Preferences is still up in the air. I have another path of contact I am going to try in the next few days, after that, I’m making some complaints all the way up a few chains of commands.

Josh Heath-OHP

Hello,

First off, yes The Open Halls Project is still up and running, yes we are still involved with helping military Heathens. Our move into civilian life has been hectic to say the least, and a lot of personal time has been spent on school, work, and just trying to figure out how to do all this stuff again!

A long time ago now, we sent in a request to the Army to get Asatru and Heathen added to the Religious Preference List. We are at an impasse for some reason with the Chaplain that was processing that request. I’ve emailed him now several times, with no response.

Kinda at a loss for what to do at this point, part of me thinks we should all email him to see what response we get, but I don’t want to burn bridges yet, something else might be stopping him from responding.

Anyway, Just wanted to update folks.

Josh Heath-OHP

The Open Halls Project would like to ask our Military members if they would be interested in a Yule care package drive? We will be sending out emails to those folks registered as military in our database as well to check with folks. Please let us know if you would like a care package and we will then ask our civilian supporters to assist in putting some together!

Hello Everyone!

Cat and I have finally settled into life in New York. We are still happy to help Military Heathens too! We are currently still waiting on a response for the US Army religious preference request. Which pretty much pisses us off, but we will be pushing the chaplains corp on that issue and have been pushing them regularly on it.

Also, we are considering a Yule care package drive for our Military members. We need to know if you would be interested in any way for this though!!??

Email us if you are.

Josh-OHP. Ready to Roll!!!