‘This shop will fail’: punk bookstore to get community in the door
by anonymous (not verified)
Jan 11, 2026
From The Lawrence Times
If Lawrencians are going to confuse the Ecumenical Campus Ministries for a church, executive director Jessie Duke at least wants it to seem like a wild one. That’s why she opened a punk, anarchist bookstore in the building. “Because it presents as a church, often people are afraid to come here,” Duke said. “There’s a lot of people that feel isolated from that, or have trauma around being in religious spaces.”