RELIGIOUS LIFE • RESTORATION • KINSHIP

Resources for the Journey

The Hall provides religious, educational, and practical resources for those seeking to deepen their practice, cultivate responsibility, prepare for restoration and reentry, or strengthen their connection with religious community.

Whether the journey is taking place within a correctional setting or beyond it, these resources are offered to help keep the hearth, build a good name, and foster meaningful kinship.

Prison Ministry & Formation

Resources developed especially for religious life, reflection, formation, and renewal during incarceration and beyond.

Keeping the Inner Hearth

Guidance for maintaining religious practice through remembrance, study, reflection, disciplined conduct, and faithful observance when ordinary forms of religious life may be limited.

A Good Name

A Hákonarætt Study in Wisdom, Responsibility & Renewal

A twenty-study workbook exploring wisdom, responsibility, character, consequence, renewal, and the continuing work of building a good name.

The Hearth Within

The Hall's religious newsletter for incarcerated practitioners, offering reflections, teachings, study, and encouragement for keeping the hearth through difficult circumstances.

Religious Foundations

Explore the religious ideas, relationships, and principles that shape life within the Old Norse tradition as practiced by our community.

The Gods

An introduction to the Gods of the Old Norse tradition and the place of reverence and relationship within religious life.

The Ancestors

Reflections on remembrance, inheritance, responsibility, and our relationship with those who came before us.

The Landvættir

An introduction to respect for the spirits of place and the responsibilities that arise from living in relationship with the land.

Principles & Understanding

The Nine Principles

Nine guiding principles for religious life, character, responsibility, fellowship, and the keeping of right relationships.

Our Theological Vision

An explanation of how we approach the Old Norse tradition as a living religious inheritance shaped by inherited sources, thoughtful interpretation, and faithful practice.

Glossary

Definitions and explanations of important terms encountered throughout the Hall's religious materials and website.

Restoration & Kinship

Religious formation continues through responsibility, relationships, community, and the work of rebuilding life beyond incarceration.

Restoration & Reentry

Resources and guidance centered on responsibility, healthy relationships, continued religious practice, and the patient work of rebuilding a good name and a stable life.

Find the Fellowship

Discover independent kindreds, developing communities, and other practitioners seeking fellowship within the wider Hákonarætt community.

For Chaplains & Religious-Services Staff

Correctional chaplains and religious-services personnel may find information about Hákonarætt's religious orientation, available ministry materials, institutional procedures, and ways to contact the Hall concerning incarcerated practitioners.

The Hearth Is Kept Through Practice

Resources can inform and encourage, but religious life is ultimately carried into daily practice—through remembrance, study, responsibility, right relationship, and the choices made from one day to the next.

Begin wherever you are. Tend what has been entrusted to you. Carry the hearth forward.