Donald Hudson 'Don' Frew is a figure in American Wicca, the Covenant of the Goddess, national and global interfaith dialogue, and Pagan studies.
[8] 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.
Since 1985 Frew has worked with San Francisco police Inspector Sandi Gallant as a consultant on the occult,[9] growing over the years to collaboration with law enforcement agencies around the country.
Frew served as an occult expert / consultant on the McMartin Preschool Trial, the Leonard Lake serial killings, and the Matamoros murders, among others.
In 1986, with his college friend Shawn Carlson, Frew proposed that the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion (CSER) investigate the rising and widespread claims of "Satanic Ritual Abuse" or "SRA."
[12] In 1986, Frew approached and began a dialogue with the Spiritual Counterfeits Project,[13] a Berkeley-based Evangelical Christian research organization focused against cults and the occult.
Through Frew's efforts, in 1992 the Covenant of the Goddess became one of four Neopagan organizations to co-sponsor the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions,[18] where over 8000 international attendees attended over 900 programs in the course of nine days.
Frew and other interfaith organizers in Berkeley created the "Celebrating the Spirit"[21] conference, an official UN50 event that continued discussions concerning the "Global Ethic" document that had been signed at the Assembly at the 1993 Parliament.
[24] • He accepted invitation by Dr. Gerald O. Barney,[25] author of the Global 2000 Report, to be part of a panel of religious leaders addressing his "Millennium Questions" asking representatives of different faiths to respond to the crises of the age.
[26] • As part of the Parliament, Frew created the Lost & Endangered Religions Project[27] and (LERP), an interfaith nonprofit service organization that works with marginalized religious communities to preserve religious traditions in danger of being lost forever.,[28][29] at LERP was one of five "Gifts of Service" created at this Parliament's Assembly selected to be presented to the Dalai Lama.
[32][33] In 1998 and 1999, Frew represented CoG (with Deborah Ann Light) at the Global Summits held at Stanford University to create the Charter for a new interfaith organization – the United Religions Initiative.