David M Frye

A native of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, David M. Frye entered the Church through baptism in 1962 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in nearby Annville, and confirmed his faith on Pentecost 1976 at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Lebanon Valley College, Annville, in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in physics, he earned his Master of Divinity degree at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1989. Ordained that year, he served parishes in both western and eastern Nebraska before directing communications for the Martin Luther Home Society, Lincoln, and earning his master of arts degree in journalism in 2000 from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. In 2009, he made his final oblation as an oblate of Saint Benedict and became a member of the Nebraska Chapter of oblates of Sacred Heart Monastery, Yankton, South Dakota. His postal history articles about mail services and the people who send, handle, and receive letters and parcels have appeared in more than a dozen journals, predominantly ones focusing on postal markings and methods and on the postal history of post-colonial English-speaking countries in Africa. He has exhibited his nature photography at various venues in and around Lincoln, Nebraska. He is the author of three books: Bridging Physics and Communications: Experimental Detection and Analysis of Web Site Users’ Paths in an Environment of Free Choice, 2000; Contact Sheet: Poems, 2012; and Tracks of a Theological Chimera, 2024. He and Anne, his wife, live in Franklin, Massachusetts. He is an oblate of Our Lady of Glastonbury Abbey, Hingham, Massachusetts, and the lead clerk for the U.S. Postal Service in Framingham. In addition, he serves as a volunteer digital layout editor for The Krapf Project, an international effort to serve the Church by providing ministerial enrichment and resources for rural pastors in East Africa.