About Luke Ford: Luke Carey Ford is an Australian/American writer, blogger, and former pornography gossip columnist.
Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.
I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.
I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.
At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.
Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.
Everything we do affects other people.
One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.
Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.
I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.
The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.
I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.
I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.
If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.
At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
