A 90-minute drive from liberal Amsterdam, a pocket of orthodox Calvinism thrives where women shun trousers, swearing is banned and television is scorned as an ungodly intrusion.
Pious sobriety dictates politics, fashion and other aspects of daily life in the town of Staphorst, nestled near the top end of the so-called Dutch Bible Belt that stretches from Zeeland in the southwest to northeastern Overijssel.
"People here see themselves as the true heirs of John Calvin," the reformist Protestant theologian born 500 years ago last month, 82-year-old Jan de Wolde told AFP of the town he moved to 54 years ago and has written widely about....
