ハドソンは聖書には登場しない — しかしハドソン・テイラーは服装を変えた

Hudson is not in the Bible. It means “son of Hudde,” a medieval English nickname — and its most consequential bearer spent his life arguing that missionaries should stop looking English. What the name means Hudson is a patronymic surname: Hudde plus son. Hudde was a familiar form of Hugh, and in some regions of Richard — the sort of everyday nickname that leaves no trace except in surnames. It became a given name in America in the twentieth century,…