Does Earth Day belong in church?

Pat Skelly, a veteran environmental activist and lawyer, will lead a church service about safeguarding the natural world in honor of Earth Day at 10 a.m. Sunday, at Dorothea Dix Unitarian Universalist Community in Bordentown.

Skelly, a New Jersey native, is executive director and founder of her blog, "It's All Connected," and BrightGreenWorks.tv . She is a graduate of the Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, where she focused on the environment and urban planning. She said she took some many environmentally oriented courses at the University of Delaware, where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree, that she essentially created a minor in environmental studies, before the university established one.

Unitarian Universalists believe Earth Day is very relevant to their faith. The seventh principle of the Unitarian Universalist faith calls adherents to," respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part."

The church, 39 Park St., Bordentown, NJ, can be reached by phone at (609) 444-9349 or by email at dduuc@yahoo.com.