Understanding the Split in the Methodist Church

Having trouble understanding the United Methodist Church split? At the invitation of Pastor Jan Dillard, president of the Missouri chapter of the Wesleyan Covenant Association (WCA), I recently delivered the following speech and PowerPoint presentation outlining the long history of breakdown in discipline and doctrine that has led to our current point of separation, the basics of the widely supported "Protocol" deal to split the denomination, and the nature of the choice with which each conference and congregation in our denomination will soon be faced.