Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig epic-churches.org. NS
Answer
epic-churches.org. 5 NS ns-311.awsdns-38.com.
epic-churches.org. 5 NS ns-1007.awsdns-61.net.
epic-churches.org. 5 NS ns-419.awsdns-52.com.
epic-churches.org. 5 NS ns-1619.awsdns-10.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0