‘This shop will fail’: ECM leadership hopes new punk bookstore will be lightning rod to get community in the door

Posted January 9, 2026

 ECM leadership hopes new punk bookstore will be lightning rod to get community in the door

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.

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