Editing Excommunication (section)

===Methodism===
In the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]], individuals were able to be excommunicated following "trial before a jury of his peers, and after having had the privilege of an appeal to a higher court".<ref name="Simpson1883"/> Nevertheless, an excommunication could be lifted after sufficient [[penance]].<ref name="Simpson1883">{{cite book|last=Simpson|first=Matthew|title=Cyclopaedia of Methodism: Embracing Sketches of Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition, with Biographical Notices and Numerous Illustrations|year=1883|publisher=L.H. Everts|language=en |page=351}}</ref>

[[John Wesley]], the founder of the Methodist Churches, excommunicated sixty-four members from the Newcastle Methodist society alone for the following reasons:<ref name="Watts2014">{{cite web|url=http://um-insight.net/perspectives/what-would-john-wesley-expel-you-for%3F/|title=What Would John Wesley Expel You For?|last=Watts|first=Joel L.|date=26 June 2014|publisher=United Methodist Insight|language=en|access-date=24 May 2018}}</ref>
{{blockquote|Two for cursing and swearing.<br />
Two for habitual Sabbath-breaking.<br />
Seventeen for drunkenness.<br />
Two for retailing spiritous liquors.<br />
Three for quarrelling and brawling.<br />
One for beating his wife.<br />
Three for habitual, wilful lying.<br />
Four for railing and evil-speaking.<br />
One for idleness and laziness. And,<br />
Nine-and-twenty for lightness and carelessness.<ref name="Watts2014"/>}}

The [[Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection]], in its 2014 ''Discipline'', includes "homosexuality, lesbianism, bi-sexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and any attempt to alter one's gender by surgery", as well as remarriage after divorce among its excommunicable offences.<ref name="AWMC2014">{{cite book|title=The Discipline of the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection (Original Allegheny Conference)|year=2014|publisher=[[Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection]]|location=[[Salem, Ohio|Salem]]|language=en|pages=21, 45, 125}}</ref>

The [[Evangelical Wesleyan Church]], in its 2015 ''Discipline'', states that "Any member of our church who is accused of neglect of the means of grace or other duties required by the Word of God, the indulgence of sinful tempers, words or actions, the sowing of dissension, or any other violation of the order and discipline of the church, may, after proper labor and admonition, be censured, placed on probation, or expelled by the official board of the circuit of which he is a member. If he request a trial, however, within thirty dates of the final action of the official board, it shall be granted."<ref name="EWC2015">{{cite book|title=The Discipline of the Evangelical Wesleyan Church |year=2015|publisher=[[Evangelical Wesleyan Church]]|language=en|pages=152}}</ref>