The Fighting Preacher is a 2019 drama film written and directed by T. C. Christensen and starring David McConnell and Kenna Dawn.

Willard Bean, the former world's middle weight boxing champion and his new wife, Rebecca are called in 1915 by LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith to serve five years in the Eastern States Mission.

They arrive in Palmyra with optimism and settle into the home, but are surprised to immediately encounter fierce opposition from the local residents.

The merchants refuse to sell them any goods forcing them to travel to the next town, and Rebecca, now pregnant, can't find any local midwife willing to help with the delivery.

They enroll Palmyra in school where she is bullied by the students and shunned by the teacher who forces her to sit in the back with her desk nailed to the floor facing out the window.

Later, the owner of part of the Hill Cumorah who demanded the exorbitant price dies and his heirs sell their share for a reasonable amount.

Sean Means of The Salt Lake Tribune praised Christensen's work on the film, saying he "infuses a gentle humor to the Beans’ story, capturing Willard’s good-natured sarcasm" and that the "deeply faithful will appreciate the occasional name-dropping.