Competency One: Worship and Rites of Passage
- Knows how to prepare holistic, inclusive worship and rituals for life passages.
- Demonstrates awareness of multicultural and multigenerational approaches to worship.
- Prepares and delivers engaging sermons, homilies, and reflections.
- Works collaboratively with professional colleagues and lay worship leaders.
- Uses arts to create multisensory worship. Integrates theological theory and practice.
Competency Two: Pastoral Care and Presence
- Can provide pastoral care, recognizing differences between pastoral and therapeutic counseling.
- Demonstrates healthy personal boundaries and knowledge of professional ethics.
- Has awareness and skills to respond appropriately to sexuality, mental health, end of life, and relationship concerns.
- Understands cultural and generational needs in pastoral care.
Competency Three: Spiritual Development For Self and Others
- Models spiritual depth in personal practice.
- Articulates philosophies and theories of teaching and learning.
- Models accountable engagement with diverse spiritual traditions and communities.
- Demonstrates understanding of multi-religious knowledge and practices.
Competency Four: Social Justice in the Public Square
- Is engaged with critical justice issues in the local community and in the larger world.
- Can apply the lens of power and privilege in the areas of antiracism, anti-oppression, and multiculturalism.
- Understands basics of community organizing and value of broad-based coalitions.
- Connects the history of UU justice engagement to the present.
Competency Five: Administration
- Is prepared to manage staff and volunteers.
- Has a basic understanding of budgets, stewardship, and fundraising (and the theology thereof).
- Understands role as a minister within a mission-based institution.
- Articulates understanding of conflict management and obstacles to healthy organizational functioning.
Competency Six: Serves the Larger Unitarian Universalist Faith
- Collaborates with Unitarian Universalist and interfaith colleagues, including other religious professionals.
- Articulates historical influence of Christianity on North American culture, including Unitarian Universalism.
- Engages with Unitarian Universalism at the local, regional, national, and global levels.
- Articulates knowledge of current initiatives and issues within the faith movement.
- Demonstrates knowledge of UU history and polity.
- Contributes to on-going scholarship and support of professional ministry.
Competency Seven: Leads the Faith Into the Future
- Experiments with emerging media technology.
- Articulates a vision for the future, assessing opportunities and challenges for Unitarian Universalism in a changing society.
- Explores new generational and multicultural expressions of Unitarian Universalism.
