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Monday’s show, which lasted 2 hours and 45 minutes, began as “Cowboy Carter” does, with renditions of Beyoncé’s churchy “Ameriican Requiem” and the Beatles’ “Blackbird”; then she sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” as a giant video screen behind her flashed a message: “Never ask permission for something that already belongs to you.”

The churchy believe Democrats are baby-killing demons so they voted for Trump, whose anti-science beliefs led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands during COVID.

He had always wanted to be an actor, but after college at Texas Lutheran University, he headed to Denver to do what he called a “churchy version of AmeriCorps.”

For the finale of this year’s event, Davis summoned to the stage the great Gladys Knight, who burrowed deep into the gilded melancholy of “The Way We Were” before herself calling up two old pals, Dionne Warwick and Stevie Wonder, for a churchy rendition of that charity-circuit staple, “That’s What Friends Are For.”

The first time I saw her, a sort of churchy lady appeared on this wet and abandoned Manchester train station, straps on a Gibson SG and starts playing rock 'n' roll.