The Plot: Sam Childers (Gerard Butler) is an ex-con, drug dealing-using thug who would rather carouse with lowlifes than be a husband and father . . . until he is born again. After finding the Lord, he finds his calling – the threatened children of Sudan. Using every resource he has, Childers builds and rebuilds an orphanage to nurture and protect Africa’s most prized resource – its youths, and in so doing, possibly saves his own soul. Kent’s Take: “Machine Gun Preacher” depicts the true story of a bad seed gone good. Childers is a stubborn but driven man. He is direct and refuses to sit back and wait. It’s this combination of...