Disruptive preacher boasts that 200 trapped airline passengers heard her sermon
Disruptive preacher boasts that 200 trapped airline passengers heard her sermon Jason Weisberger 11:32 am Tue Jul 28, 2026 Image: Screenshot from Airplane Evangelist Whitney Lynn has found the perfect audience: people strapped into seats several miles above the ground. "I just love a captive audience," she wrote after preaching to roughly 200 passengers trapped aboard a commercial flight she happened to be on. The fact that the sermons are unwanted doesn't bother the evangelists at all because, for once, they have an audience that can't walk away.
- ▪Disruptive preacher boasts that 200 trapped airline passengers heard her sermon Jason Weisberger 11:32 am Tue Jul 28, 2026 Image: Screenshot from Airplane Evangelist Whitney Lynn has found the perfect audience: people strapped into seats se
- ▪"I just love a captive audience," she wrote after preaching to roughly 200 passengers trapped aboard a commercial flight she happened to be on.
- ▪The fact that the sermons are unwanted doesn't bother the evangelists at all because, for once, they have an audience that can't walk away.
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Disruptive preacher boasts that 200 trapped airline passengers heard her sermon Jason Weisberger 11:32 am Tue Jul 28, 2026 Image: Screenshot from Airplane Evangelist Whitney Lynn has found the perfect audience: people strapped into seats several miles above the ground. "I just love a captive audience," she wrote after preaching to roughly 200 passengers trapped aboard a commercial flight she happened to be on. The fact that the sermons are unwanted doesn't bother the evangelists at all because, for once, they have an audience that can't walk away. And the hope that strangers might convert outweighs any concern that they'll conclude Christians are lunatics. There's unfortunately very little airline staff can do to stop this.
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