Bob Hostetler Biography

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Bob Hostetler is an award-winning writer, editor, pastor and speaker from southwestern Ohio. His twenty books, which include They Call Me A.W.O.L. and Holy Moses (and Other Adventures in Vertical Living), have sold over 2 million copies. He has co-authored eleven books with Josh McDowell, including the best-selling Right from Wrong (What You Need to Know to Help Youth Make Right Choices) and the award-winning Don't Check Your Brains at the Door. He has won two Gold Medallion Awards, three Ohio Associated Press awards, and an Amy Foundation Award. Bob is a frequent speaker at churches, conferences, and retreats. He has been a disc jockey, pastor, magazine editor, freelance book editor, and (with his wife Robin) a foster parent to ten boys (though not all at once). Bob and Robin have two adult children, Aubrey and Aaron. They live in Hamilton, Ohio.

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2003 Recipient Ohio Associated Press Award
Best Broadcast Writing, Medium Market, Second Place
For the commentary, "Of Journalists and Missionaries"

2002 Recipient Ohio Associated Press Award
Best Broadcast Writing, Medium Market, Second Place
For the commentary, "Blaming Religion"

2001 Recipient Ohio Associated Press Award
Broadcast Commentary
For the commentary, "Words"

2000 Recipient Ohio Associated Press Award
Broadcast Commentary
For the commentary, "Heroism"

1999 Final Nominee for Gold Medallion (Evangelical Christian Publishers Association)
Christianity and Society category
The New Tolerance
by Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler

1997 AMY Foundation Writing Award for newspaper article
New Tolerance No Virtue
Hamilton Journal-News

1997 Gold Medallion (ECPA)
Christian Ministry category
Josh McDowell's Handbook on Counseling Youth
by Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler

1997 Premio Adolfo Robleto (Adolfo Robleto Award)
Spanish language book of the Year
Es Bueno O Es Malo (Right From Wrong)
by Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler

1997 Higher Goals Award (Evangelical Press Association)
Single-Theme Section/Issue category
Bob Hostetler's Moody Magazine article, Children and Lesser Gods

1995 Final Nominee for Gold Medallion
Christianity & Society category
Right From Wrong
by Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler

1995 Final Nominee for Gold Medallion
Evangelical Christian Publishers Association
Youth category
13 Things You Gotta Know to Keep Your Love Life Alive and Well
by Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler

1993 Gold Medallion
Evangelical Christian Publishers Association
Youth category
Don't Check Your Brains at the Door
Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler

1992 Article of the Year (Second Place)
The Christian Communicator
"If John Had Not Written"