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SPECIAL EDITION: Rob Reiner’s son arrested in connection with parents’ deaths · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to this special edition of Tenison Forums daily article podcast for Monday, December 15th, 2025.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It is written by our CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I am Chris Elkins, narrator.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: iconic actor and director Rob Reiner first came to fame for his role as Archie Bunker's liberal son-in-law, Meathead, in the television series All in the Family.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Beginning in the 1980s, he established himself as a director of numerous successful Hollywood films, including The Syspinal Tap, The Princess Bride, when Harry Met Sally, a few good men, and The American President.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This morning, news began breaking that he and his wife Michelle had been found dead in their Los Angeles home.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The couple was found stabbed to death Sunday in an apparent homicide according to police.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, we are learning that their son, Nick Reiner, was arrested Sunday night in connection with the deaths of his parents.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He is being held in a jail in Los Angeles County on $4 million bail.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At this writing, no information about criminal charges has been made available.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, people magazine is reporting that the miners were killed by their son, though police have not confirmed this account.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Nick Reiner, age 32, has spoken openly over the years about his struggles with drug abuse and bouts of homelessness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He and his father worked together on a movie, Being Charly, which was loosely inspired by Nick's early life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rob Reiner directed, while his son wrote the screenplay alongside a person he met and rehab.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My wife and I happened to watch when Harry met Sally again the other night.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Afterwards, we discussed how effectively the movie normalizes sex outside of marriage.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The two characters played so whinsomely by Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sleep with any number of people while never marrying any of them, except each other at the end of the movie, of course.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rob Reiner's film is so humorous and likable that you find yourself glad for the couple when they find happiness in their unbiblical relationship.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I disagreed with Mr. Reiner on numerous cultural and moral issues.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was a well-known advocate for same-sex marriage, for example, among other liberal causes, and many of his movies portrayed sexual immorality in ways that normalized and popularized it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In addition, he made clear that he didn't quote, believe in organized religion,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Though he appreciated a lot of the concepts of Buddhism, he explained, quote, I'm not practicing anything, but those things make sense because it's all about how you find spirituality inside you and how you treat others.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's all about finding meaning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what life is all about, in quote.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At the same time, I am, of course, horrified by the news of his death and that of his wife.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If their son does turn out to be involved in their murder, this will be an even more tragic story.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I've been thinking about my reaction to the news of his death.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Upon reflection, I believe there is a factor here that transcends Mr. Reiner and the news of the day, whatever it is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus loved the rich young ruler recorded in Mark 10, verse 17 through 22, even knowing that the man would reject his invitation to discipleship.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He grieve for Jerusalem, even though, and because, it would reject him as the Messiah as we learn in Luke 19, verses 41 through 44.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He loved his disciples to the end, according to John 13 verse 1, even though they would abandon him in the Garden of Gethsemane and, except for John, forsake him at the cross.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He loved those who crucified him as he prayed for their forgiveness and looked 23 verse 34.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus described John, and his brother James, as sons of thunder, in Mark 3 verse 17, perhaps presaging the time that two were angered by the Samaritan rejection of Jesus, and asked in Luke 9 verse 54, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On the way to Jerusalem, the brothers' mother asked Jesus as we read in Matthew 20 verses 23, to see them in places of honor in his kingdom.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And yet John was his beloved disciple,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: According to John 21, verse 20, the Bible teaches in Romans 5, verse 8, God chose his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus' love for us is so unconditional and absolute that nothing can separate us from it, declared in Romans 8, verse 35.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The more we reject him, the more we need him, the sicker the patient, the more urgent and necessary the physician.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's my point, Jesus' followers can experience and manifest this same unconditional love for those who do not agree with our biblical faith.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, we should, and we must.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not unusual in religious history for God's to appear as human.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was standard in Roman mythology, for example, for various deities to take on human form to interact with us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was also typical for humans to be deified after their death as with ancient Egyptian beliefs regarding the Pharaohs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But here is what Christianity surprisingly claims.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our God can live in us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just as Jesus came to live in Mary prior to Christmas,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So his spirit comes to live in every person who makes Christ their Lord, established in 1 Corinthians 3, verse 16.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Paul testified in Colossians 127, God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, at this amazing fact, not only does Jesus live in Christians, but he also works to make Christians more like Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: His Spirit manifests His character, including His love for all people from Galatians 5 verse 22.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thus, we see Peter and John ministering to a crippled beggar in Acts 3.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Philip caring about the hated Samaritans in Acts 8 verses 4 through 8, and Paul, the former Pharisee, devoting his life to reaching Gentiles referenced in Acts 9 verse 15.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus' compassion changed the world through us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It still can.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the best ways we can measure the degree to which we are following Jesus and are submitted to a spirit is by measuring the degree to which we love people who do not love us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How we treat those we don't have to treat well is a basic measure of character.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But how we love those who reject our love and our Lord is a measure of Christ's likeness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus was clear on this in Matthew 5 verses 44 and 45, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your father who is in heaven.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The more we love those who do not love us, the more we display the family traits of our father, and the more we draw others to him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The early apologists of the late second and early third
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  [SPEAKER_00]: wrote of his fellow believers in his work Apology, chapter 39, quote, we don't take the gifts and spend them on feasts, drinking bouts, or fancy restaurants.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, we use them to support and bury poor people, to supply the needs of boys and girls who have no means and no parents.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We support the elderly can find now to their homes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We also help those who have suffered shipwreck.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and if there happens to be any in the minds or banish to the islands or shut up in the prisons for nothing but their fidelity to the cause of God's church, they then become the nurslings of the confession we hold fast as we take them in to help them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Primarily, it is the acts of love that are so noble that lead many to put a brand upon us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: See?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They say, how they love one another.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Who will say the same of you today?