Rev. Liddy Barlow
Executive Minister, Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania; Steering Committee, Stand for All Pittsburgh
2023, 2024, 2025
The Rev. Liddy Barlow has served as Executive Minister of Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania since 2014. For over 50 years, Christian Associates has convened the diverse Christians of Greater Pittsburgh to build relationships, serve the common good, and build bridges with interfaith partners. Rev. Barlow coordinates all of Christian Associates’ projects and programs, including the Council of Bishops & Executives, the “We Have to Talk” network of interfaith spiritual leaders, and the “Reckoning with Antisemitism as Christians” initiative. Rev. Barlow is the Moderator of the Penn West Conference of the United Church of Christ. In 2019, the General Synod of the United Church of Christ honored her with the Antoinette Brown Award, presented to trailblazing women in ministry. Rev. Barlow grew up in New Hampshire and attended Mount Holyoke College and Andover Newton Theological School. She lives in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood with her husband Gregory and their two children, Pippa and Edmund.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
