Video Excerpts from Sunday Services
VIMEO CHANNEL - SHORELINE UU CHURCH
2023
Sunday, March 5: "Articulating Your Strengths"
Jerald Forster and Jennifer Rose
Sunday, February 26: "After the Tsunami"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 19: "Honoring Our Grief"
Rev. Barbara Cornell
Sunday, February 12: "Love Sunday: Chocolate Communion"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 5: "Parallels of Disaster, Parallels of Hope"
Rev. Amanda Aikman
Sunday, January 29: "Self(less)"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday January 22 "Finding the Thread"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday January 15 "Civil Rights Sunday: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday January 8: "Four Characteristics of a Great Church"
Eric David Scott
2022
Saturday December 24: "Better to Light a Candle Than Curse the Darkness"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday December 18: "The Grinch and UUville"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, December 11: "Ringing the Bell of Peace"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, December 4: "What Do You Think Is Coming?"
Bob Beekman
Sunday, November 27: "A Bittersweet Season"
Rev. Amanda Aikman
Sunday, November 20: "A Peace of Pie"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, November 13: "What Abigail Said"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, November 6: "Rest: Finding Calm in the Storm"
Rev. Justin Almeida
Sunday, October 30: "Day of Remembrance, Prevent Hauntings by Remembering Well"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, October 23: "How to Trust Your Leaders"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, October 16: "Sliding Doors and Walls of Stone"
Rev. Thomas Perchlk
Sunday, October 9: "First Nation Sunday: Tribal Unity"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik and David Burgee
Sunday, October 2: "Beautiful Mistakes"
Rev. Barbara Cornell
Sunday, September 25: "Meeting the Moment"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, September 18: "The Dance of Fear and Anger"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, September 11: "Confluence"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, September 4: "Labor Sunday"
Pulpit Guest Chris Pollina
Sunday, August 28: "Black Buddha"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 21: "Look Into My Magic Mirror"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 14: "What the Bible Really Says (about abortion and other things)"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 7: "Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?"
Guest Speaker Bridget Laflin
Sunday, July 31: "Lughnasadh"
Guest Speaker Rev. Amy Beltaine
Sunday, July 24: "What is Help? What is REAL Help?"
Guest Speaker Earle Canfield
Sunday, July 17: "Living is Easy With Eyes Closed"
Guest Speaker Rev. Joanna Gabriel
Sunday, July 10: "UU Sacraments? What on Earth Would Those Be?"
Pulpit Guest Bob Beekman
Sunday, July 3: "Words: Their Power and Their Positive Potential"
Pulpit Guest Lew Witham
Sunday, June 26: "Three Sources of Joy"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, June 19: "Every Ending is the Beginning"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, June 12: "Sharing Endless Questions"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, June 5: "Bereavement and Bad Theology: A Toxic Cocktail"
Pulpit Guest Dr. Terri Daniel
Sunday, May 29: "Ending the War"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, May 22: "Unfinished Business"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, May 15: "Deeds Above Creeds"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, May 8: "Systemic Racism is Deeply Personal"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, May 1: "What to Do When the Dog is On Fire"
Pulpit Guest Catherine Crain
Sunday, April 24: "Elevating Evaluation"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, April 17: "Easter: What is Resurrection?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
2022 Search Committee Results
Board President Susan Storer Clark
Sunday, April 10: "Sailing in the Dark"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, April 3: "Early Lessons from Aikido: A Way Toward Peace"
Rev. April Frazier
Sunday, March 27: "To Keep Our Vows"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 20: "Balance as Illusion"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 13: "Revival and Resilience"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 6: "Liminal Space"
Rev. Barbara Cornell
Sunday, February 27: "Accepting the Call"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 20: "What is the Green Knight?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 13: "Who Loves Me?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 6: "Crazy for Love"
Rev. Amanda Aikman
Sunday, January 30: "Unraveling the Big Lie"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 23: "Narrow is the Way"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 16: "The King of Critical Race"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 9: "Who's on the Team?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 2: "Increasing Your Positivity During 2022"
Pulpit Guest Jerald Forster
2021
Sunday, December 24: "When Love is Born"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, December 19: "Solstice Joy"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, December 12: "The People of Peace"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, December 5: "Sharing Hope"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, November 28: "Hello, My Name Is..."
Pulpit Guest Bridget Laflin
Sunday, November 21: "What Do We Share"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, November 14: "A Covenant With All Living Things"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, November 7: "Beyond Categorical Thinking"
Pulpit Guest Rev. Gil Guerrero
Sunday, October 31: "Tequila for the Dead"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, October 24: "The Well Oiled Machine"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, October 17: "Romantic Thinking"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, October 10: "Which Nation is Yours?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
SUUC Duwamish Plaque Dedication (after service on Oct. 10)
Rev. Thomas Perchlik & Duwamish Tribe Council Member Ken Workman
Sunday, October 3: "The Five Jagged Rocks of Unitarian Universalism"
Written by Karishma Gottfried, Presented by Pulpit Guest Lukas Illa
Sunday, September 26: "The Spirituality of Social Action"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, September 19: "The Ministry of Reconciliation"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, September 12: "Water, Water, Everywhere"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, September 5: "Free and Responsible"
Pulpit Guest Kristina Selset
Sunday, August 29: "You Can't Go Home Again"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 22: "Spiritual But Not Religious"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 15: "We Are Not a Denomination"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 8: "Size Matters"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 1: "Jumping into the Abyss"
Pulpit Guest Catherine Crain
Sunday, July 25: "The Church With No Name"
Pulpit Guest Bob Beekman
Sunday, July 18: "Close to the Bone"
Pulpit Guest Rev. Joanna Gabriel
Sunday, July 11: "A Basket of Fruits"
Pulpit Guest Lew Witham
Sunday, July 4: "Remembering Freedom of Speech"
Rev. Amanda Aikman
Sunday, June 27: "Building Blocks"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, June 20: "What I Mean by God"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, June 13: "Flower Communion"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, June 6: "Witnessing Transformation"
Pulpit Guest Rev. April Frazier
Sunday, May 30: "What Are the Odds?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, May 23: "Where I'm Bound"
Pulpit Guest Paul Borrmann
Sunday, May 16: "To Remember"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, May 9: "Let Your Faith be Bigger than Your Fear"
Pulpit Guest Bridget Laflin
Sunday, May 2: "Coyote Says"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, April 25: "Lift the Spirit, Lower Expectations"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, April 18: "Trees as Spiritual Guides"
Pulpit Guest Victoria Poling
Sunday, April 11: "Unitarian is an Adjective" (sermon replayed from 3/17/19)
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, April 4: "Easter Enlightenment"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 28: "How to Fight Peacefully"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 21: "Borderlands"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 14: "A Story of Two Nations - Duwamish people in Chief Sealth's time and in ours."
Edith Loyer Nelson, John Brockhaus, Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 7: "Clinging to Timelessness in a Changing Cosmos"
Pulpit Guest Rev. Amanda Aikman
Sunday, February 28: "Lawyers, Guns, and Money"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 21: "Science and Religion in a Time of Plague"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 14: "Rosa's Gift"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 7: "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing"
Pulpit Guest Catherine Crain
Sunday, January 31: "Comfort Me"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 24: "Who Is In Charge?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 17: "Radical Hospitality and Anti-Racism"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 10: "A Promise for Peace"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 3: "Risking Transformation"
Rev. April FrazierRev. Amanda Aikman
2023
Sunday, March 5: "Articulating Your Strengths"
Jerald Forster and Jennifer Rose
Sunday, February 26: "After the Tsunami"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 19: "Honoring Our Grief"
Rev. Barbara Cornell
Sunday, February 12: "Love Sunday: Chocolate Communion"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 5: "Parallels of Disaster, Parallels of Hope"
Rev. Amanda Aikman
Sunday, January 29: "Self(less)"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday January 22 "Finding the Thread"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday January 15 "Civil Rights Sunday: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday January 8: "Four Characteristics of a Great Church"
Eric David Scott
2022
Saturday December 24: "Better to Light a Candle Than Curse the Darkness"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday December 18: "The Grinch and UUville"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, December 11: "Ringing the Bell of Peace"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, December 4: "What Do You Think Is Coming?"
Bob Beekman
Sunday, November 27: "A Bittersweet Season"
Rev. Amanda Aikman
Sunday, November 20: "A Peace of Pie"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, November 13: "What Abigail Said"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, November 6: "Rest: Finding Calm in the Storm"
Rev. Justin Almeida
Sunday, October 30: "Day of Remembrance, Prevent Hauntings by Remembering Well"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, October 23: "How to Trust Your Leaders"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, October 16: "Sliding Doors and Walls of Stone"
Rev. Thomas Perchlk
Sunday, October 9: "First Nation Sunday: Tribal Unity"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik and David Burgee
Sunday, October 2: "Beautiful Mistakes"
Rev. Barbara Cornell
Sunday, September 25: "Meeting the Moment"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, September 18: "The Dance of Fear and Anger"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, September 11: "Confluence"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, September 4: "Labor Sunday"
Pulpit Guest Chris Pollina
Sunday, August 28: "Black Buddha"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 21: "Look Into My Magic Mirror"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 14: "What the Bible Really Says (about abortion and other things)"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 7: "Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?"
Guest Speaker Bridget Laflin
Sunday, July 31: "Lughnasadh"
Guest Speaker Rev. Amy Beltaine
Sunday, July 24: "What is Help? What is REAL Help?"
Guest Speaker Earle Canfield
Sunday, July 17: "Living is Easy With Eyes Closed"
Guest Speaker Rev. Joanna Gabriel
Sunday, July 10: "UU Sacraments? What on Earth Would Those Be?"
Pulpit Guest Bob Beekman
Sunday, July 3: "Words: Their Power and Their Positive Potential"
Pulpit Guest Lew Witham
Sunday, June 26: "Three Sources of Joy"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, June 19: "Every Ending is the Beginning"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, June 12: "Sharing Endless Questions"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, June 5: "Bereavement and Bad Theology: A Toxic Cocktail"
Pulpit Guest Dr. Terri Daniel
Sunday, May 29: "Ending the War"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, May 22: "Unfinished Business"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, May 15: "Deeds Above Creeds"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, May 8: "Systemic Racism is Deeply Personal"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, May 1: "What to Do When the Dog is On Fire"
Pulpit Guest Catherine Crain
Sunday, April 24: "Elevating Evaluation"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, April 17: "Easter: What is Resurrection?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
2022 Search Committee Results
Board President Susan Storer Clark
Sunday, April 10: "Sailing in the Dark"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, April 3: "Early Lessons from Aikido: A Way Toward Peace"
Rev. April Frazier
Sunday, March 27: "To Keep Our Vows"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 20: "Balance as Illusion"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 13: "Revival and Resilience"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 6: "Liminal Space"
Rev. Barbara Cornell
Sunday, February 27: "Accepting the Call"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 20: "What is the Green Knight?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 13: "Who Loves Me?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 6: "Crazy for Love"
Rev. Amanda Aikman
Sunday, January 30: "Unraveling the Big Lie"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 23: "Narrow is the Way"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 16: "The King of Critical Race"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 9: "Who's on the Team?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 2: "Increasing Your Positivity During 2022"
Pulpit Guest Jerald Forster
2021
Sunday, December 24: "When Love is Born"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, December 19: "Solstice Joy"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, December 12: "The People of Peace"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, December 5: "Sharing Hope"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, November 28: "Hello, My Name Is..."
Pulpit Guest Bridget Laflin
Sunday, November 21: "What Do We Share"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, November 14: "A Covenant With All Living Things"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, November 7: "Beyond Categorical Thinking"
Pulpit Guest Rev. Gil Guerrero
Sunday, October 31: "Tequila for the Dead"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, October 24: "The Well Oiled Machine"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, October 17: "Romantic Thinking"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, October 10: "Which Nation is Yours?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
SUUC Duwamish Plaque Dedication (after service on Oct. 10)
Rev. Thomas Perchlik & Duwamish Tribe Council Member Ken Workman
Sunday, October 3: "The Five Jagged Rocks of Unitarian Universalism"
Written by Karishma Gottfried, Presented by Pulpit Guest Lukas Illa
Sunday, September 26: "The Spirituality of Social Action"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, September 19: "The Ministry of Reconciliation"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, September 12: "Water, Water, Everywhere"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, September 5: "Free and Responsible"
Pulpit Guest Kristina Selset
Sunday, August 29: "You Can't Go Home Again"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 22: "Spiritual But Not Religious"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 15: "We Are Not a Denomination"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 8: "Size Matters"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, August 1: "Jumping into the Abyss"
Pulpit Guest Catherine Crain
Sunday, July 25: "The Church With No Name"
Pulpit Guest Bob Beekman
Sunday, July 18: "Close to the Bone"
Pulpit Guest Rev. Joanna Gabriel
Sunday, July 11: "A Basket of Fruits"
Pulpit Guest Lew Witham
Sunday, July 4: "Remembering Freedom of Speech"
Rev. Amanda Aikman
Sunday, June 27: "Building Blocks"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, June 20: "What I Mean by God"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, June 13: "Flower Communion"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, June 6: "Witnessing Transformation"
Pulpit Guest Rev. April Frazier
Sunday, May 30: "What Are the Odds?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, May 23: "Where I'm Bound"
Pulpit Guest Paul Borrmann
Sunday, May 16: "To Remember"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, May 9: "Let Your Faith be Bigger than Your Fear"
Pulpit Guest Bridget Laflin
Sunday, May 2: "Coyote Says"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, April 25: "Lift the Spirit, Lower Expectations"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, April 18: "Trees as Spiritual Guides"
Pulpit Guest Victoria Poling
Sunday, April 11: "Unitarian is an Adjective" (sermon replayed from 3/17/19)
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, April 4: "Easter Enlightenment"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 28: "How to Fight Peacefully"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 21: "Borderlands"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 14: "A Story of Two Nations - Duwamish people in Chief Sealth's time and in ours."
Edith Loyer Nelson, John Brockhaus, Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, March 7: "Clinging to Timelessness in a Changing Cosmos"
Pulpit Guest Rev. Amanda Aikman
Sunday, February 28: "Lawyers, Guns, and Money"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 21: "Science and Religion in a Time of Plague"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 14: "Rosa's Gift"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, February 7: "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing"
Pulpit Guest Catherine Crain
Sunday, January 31: "Comfort Me"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 24: "Who Is In Charge?"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 17: "Radical Hospitality and Anti-Racism"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 10: "A Promise for Peace"
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Sunday, January 3: "Risking Transformation"
Rev. April FrazierRev. Amanda Aikman