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Donald Hudson 'Don' Frew is an internationally-known figure in American Wicca, the Covenant of the Goddess, national and international interfaith work, and Pagan scholarship. He is a National Interfaith Representative for the Covenant of the Goddess.〔(Covenant of the Goddess )〕 He has been representing Wicca ("the Craft") in interfaith work since 1985 and has served on the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Area Interfaith Council, on the Board of Directors of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio,〔(Interfaith Center at the Presidio )〕 in the Assembly of the World's Religious & Spiritual Leaders at of the Parliament of the World's Religions,〔(Parliament of the World's Religions )〕 and on the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative.〔(United Relitions Initiative )〕 He is the founder & Director of the Lost & Endangered Religions Project,〔(Director of the Lost & Endangered Religions Project )〕 focused on preserving and restoring the religious traditions of marginal communities. Frew has broached regular cooperation with law enforcement agencies and skeptics organizations, confronting the "Satanic Hysteria" of the 1990s. He is currently writing a book on the origins of the modern witchcraft movement. == Wicca & the Covenant of the Goddess == Frew's interest in Wicca began at age twelve in a group mentored by nearby Witch Lilith St. John.〔John Fritscher, Popular witchcraft, The Citadel :Press, Secaucus NJ, 1973, p 165 - 166〕 In 1983 Frew was initiated into Coven Firestar, a NROOGD (New Reformed Order of the Golden Dawn) coven and later into a Gardnerian coven (Tobar Bhride) in 1985. He is an Elder in both the NROOGD and Gardnerian Traditions of Neopagan witchcraft or Wicca. He is High Priest of a Gardnerian coven in Berkeley, California – Coven Trismegiston – with his wife Anna Korn. Frew's covens have been members in the Covenant of the Goddess (or "CoG", the world's largest religious organization for Witches), and in 1985 was elected CoG's second Public Information Officer.〔Melton, J. Gordon; ''Religious Leaders of America: a Biographical Guide'' Gale Research Inc, Detroit & London, 1991; page 159-160〕 He has, since then, served nine terms on CoG's National Board.〔five as Public Information Officer (with Dierdre Pulgram Arthen in 1991 and Michael Thorn in 1992), two as First Officer (with Diana Paxson in 1988 and Catherine Starr in 1996), and two as First Officer Emeritus〕 Frew's work as Public Information Officer for CoG led him into communication and collaboration with parts of society traditionally in tension with the Craft community: law enforcement, conservative Evangelical Christianity, and the then-nascent interfaith movement. Frew and his wife recently completed a three-year revision of the Gardnerian Book of Shadows, annotating the basic text to multiple Books of Shadows from different parts of the US and UK, to Gardner's and Valiente's Book of Shadows, and to many other historic documents. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donald H. Frew」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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