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M. Gregg Fager (my Archives Photo. In other words, I once looked like this.) [The fact is, the sun is setting on my ability to work. Having stacked decades of around-the-clock work hours, the total burn out of 2.57 computer mice, dual-wrist carpal tunnel challenges, dual eye exams and surgeries, and 12+ year’s of degerative Parkinson’s disease, it feels like it is time for me to bid you all farewell. But for now . . .]
Greetings! And Welcome! What is the story behind my 40+ years of work on the languages of human character and human virtue (1984-2025)? And how can you, your family and society greatly benefit from mastering the content of the publications that have come from my work?
Answers to these questions are given by my late friend Dr. Richard G. Wilkins (1952-2012) in his "Foreword" found in the book To Be Virtuous, Second Edition. That book will help you and your children better discern and choose truth and virtue for yourselves. When they can read, give them their own print copy.
When they can reason, they will be ready for their own copy of The Language of Human Virtue. This will prepare them for a print copy of The Language of Human Character when the time comes.
If that time has already come, you are invited to purchase and put to good use the 2025 App The eDictionary of Human Character. With its unique content and electronic research capabilities, it is like having all three books of our print trilogy at your fingertips.
Many setbacks helped me avoid taking myself too seriously. I have, however, taken my work on human characteristics very seriously. Human character is the course of study I wish I could have undertaken in college. Why it was not / is not offered, I do not know.
For each of us, developing the best possible character will be our crowning achievement in life. Human virtue is among the curricula my wife and I came to realize our family needed and will need the most. We hope your posterity and ours will use it to become the best people they can be.
That said, you may wonder about my expertise. You may want to know what my qualifications were to undertake such a work. So I have provided the following summary of my credentials. Like many of you, my ongoing preparations continue to help me in my unfolding work.
● ARTICLES
Fager, M. Gregg. "The confusion over discrimination." Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 3 April 2014. Web. 4 April 2014, A12. Print. [On judicial activism and same sex marriage]
This article was also published in: Sabulis, Tom (tsabulis). "Compromise on Religious Freedom Act?" Atlanta Forward. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Blog. 3 April 2014. Web.
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Fager, M. Gregg. "On 1st Amendment." The Salt Lake Tribune. 26 September 1990, A9. Print. [On religious freedom to pray in public school]
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Fager, M. Gregg. "State Judicial Discipline and the Utah System." Judicial Administration. Provo, Utah: J. Reuben Clark Law School, 1982. Print. [On the discipline or removal of activist or criminal judges.]
This article examines holding state judges accountable for judicial misconduct in the United States, and Utah's system for administering relief from such misconduct. The Hon. J. Clifford Wallace compiled this and other articles into Judicial Administration as a visiting professor at the Law School. The Howard W. Hunter Law Library call number for this publication is KF, 8700, A75, .T37, 1982.
[Side Note: Well-deserved Praise and Joyous Congratulations! In April 2025, BYU conferred on 96-year-old Judge J. Clifford Wallace an honorary doctorate of law and public service degree. Judge Wallace was, by far, the author’s favorite law school professor at BYU. Judge Wallace claimed he gave out very few A grades—this artical earned one of them.]
● BOOKS
The eDictionary of Human Character (App World Release 2025)
The Language of Human Character (Print 2013) -- Know what’s best!™
The Language of Human Virtue (Print 2012) -- Do what’s best!™
To Be Virtuous, 2nd Edition (Print 2012) -- Be what’s best!™
To Be Virtuous (2010)
MissionPrep FOR AGES 5 AND UP, 2nd Edition (1996)
MissionPrep FOR AGES 5 AND UP (1994)
New Human Character Dictionary and Workbook (1988)
● SPEECHES / PRESENTATIONS
Such organizations as United States Army Europe; Utah National Guard; David O. McKay School of Education, and the College of Religion, and the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University; Thunderbird School of Global Management; International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce; Rocky Mountain Helicopters; The Dow Chemical Company; InterJurService Ltd; Vegas Lex; The Leavitt Institute; Welfare Services Department, Salt Lake City, and Frankfurt, Germany Office of General Counsel, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
● CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Senior Missionary / Associate Area Legal Counsel, Europe Area Office, Germany (2018 - 2019)
● EDUCATION
J.D., J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (1983)
M.B.A., Thunderbird School of Global Management, Glendale, Arizona (1980)
M.Ed., David O. McKay School of Education, Brigham Young University (1978)
B.S., Psychology, with honors, Brigham Young University (1974)
● THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY
Read more "About the Author" at the end of 2025 World Press Release?
