A minute of conscience is "a spiritually grounded moral or conscientious position on a topic of concern in contemporary society" (FGC).
Listed below are minutes of conscience that Campus Friends Meeting has approved over the last few years.
Minute discerning genocide in Gaza
Approved 11/23/2025
As members of Campus Friends Meeting in Wilmington, Ohio, we hold as foundational our belief that all people have the Inner Light, that of God and the universe in all living beings. We stand opposed to acts of explicit state violence and institutionalized state practices that, together, create systems of inequality and undermine our shared humanity.
In this spirit, and in witness to Friends’ work alongside Israeli and Palestinian communities for several decades, we move together in unity as a meeting and in community with Friends around the world to affirm our discernment that genocide is occurring in Gaza. We endorse the statement of discernment published by American Friends Service Committee, Canadian Friends Service Committee, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Friends World Committee for Consultation World Office, Quakers in Britain/Quaker Peace and Social Witness, Quaker Council on European Affairs, Quaker Service Norway and Quaker United Nations Office.
We amplify the call to courageous action that these Friends have identified and join in their demand for:
An immediate, permanent ceasefire and full humanitarian access;
The application of robust, targeted, and timebound sanctions, including a comprehensive arms embargo, aimed at ending Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the related system of apartheid;
Respect for international law and accountability;
Protection of free speech and the right to protest; and
Dismantling of oppression and establishing a just and permanent peace.
We continue a long tradition of speaking truth to power and echo these Friends’ conviction that “peace built on equality is the only path forward.”
Minute on Gaza
Approved 9/22/2024
As members of Campus Friends Meeting in Wilmington, Ohio, we carry with us the legacy of generations of peace activists at Campus Meeting and Wilmington College. We hold up our belief that all people have the Inner Light, that of God and the universe in all living beings, and stand opposed to acts of state violence that undermine our shared humanity.
Alongside Quakers around the world, we grieve the 1,200 Israeli lives and the more than 40,000 Palestinian lives lost in the last eleven months. We hold in the light the tens of thousands of Palestinians still unaccounted for, the thousands wounded and disabled, the remaining Israeli hostages, and a generation of children orphaned and displaced at alarming rates.
We amplify the calls of Friends Committee on National Legislation, the American Friends Service Committee and the United Nations General Assembly for:
An immediate and lasting ceasefire in the occupied Palestinian territories;
An arms embargo on Israel;
Restoration of UNRWA funding; and
An end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories.
We believe that war undermines paths to peace and reconciliation worldwide and call on the President and Congress to halt all military support and weapon sales to Israel and work to de-escalate rising tension throughout the region.
Minute on Marriage under the Care of Campus Friends Meeting
Approved 8/28/2022
Campus Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends welcomes people of all orientation. It is our experience that deep love is not restricted to heterosexual relationships.
Therefore, Campus Monthly Meeting of Friends will treat all requests for marriage equally, without regard to gender.
We celebrate all unions which, after careful discernment and Clearness are found to be Blessed by God.
Minute Affirming the Dignity of All People
Approved 5/23/2021
We affirm the dignity of each person created in the image of God. The Light of the Living Christ has taught us that God’s love extends equally to all people regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Our understanding of God’s universal love leads us to affirm the full dignity of LGBTQ+ persons and equal status within the Religious Society of Friends and the wider world. All convenient relationships including marriages under the care of a Quaker meting are sacred, legal and the cause for joy. As with all couples, we follow Quaker process to discern their readiness to be married under the care of Campus Friends Meeting. In honoring and caring for any marriage we affirm that we are ‘witnessing that which God has already done.’