Freedom from (Airline) Religion

The Catholic Thing · Aug 5, 2026 · 6m

By Casey Chalk Earlier this month, Orlando-based evangelist and social media influencer Whitney Lynn posted a video of herself offering a brief preaching session as passengers prepared to debark an airplane in San Diego. Below the clip – in which most people seemed either oblivious or trying to ignore her – Lynn wrote: "I just love a captive audience." On 30 July, Lynn was even bounced from a San Diego-bound jet for her sermonizing (something she labeled "spiritual warfare"). Lynn is not an outlier. As a recent Washington Post article reports, airplane preaching is a real phenomenon, and one…