 "Onward, Christian Soldiers" was written in 1865 and uses New Testament military metaphors of Christians as soldiers.In the 1980s there was a growing movement against the notion of Christian military references, leading to some churches in the United States dropping it from their hymn books.In the United Kingdom, after the Falklands War, David Wright attempted to revive "Onward, Christian Soldiers" as a pacifist hymn while keeping its tune by writing "Onward, Christian Pilgrims" to the same tune.