[This sermon seeks to address what's going on in the world right now both with priestly sensitivity and with prophetic strength. If you want to make it more pointed, more linear, you might want to build it around the major themes that are subtly introduced in the narrative:

1. The world is a violent place, and getting more violent;
2. Christians shouldn't be surprised, since we have a doctrine of sin that warns us that our estrangement from God will have ghastly consequences;
3. Christians have always been divided and will always be divided on how to resist violence: through physical force or spiritual might;
4. Whichever path one chooses, nonviolent or violent resistance, Christians must always see people, not labels: individual persons whom Jesus loves, not undifferentiated despots, tyr…