Read this report from a task force of the Diocese of Northern California. The report examines scriptural and doctrinal arguments for and against inviting all present to receive Communion regardless whether they’ve been baptized. The report summarizes survey responses from Episcopal Church dioceses and Northern California parishes.
When Jesus recruited his first disciples — the men with whom he eventually shared the inaugural eucharistic feast, the Last Supper — his call was was simply "Follow me." There’s no reliable evidence that any of the Twelve were ever
baptized. [1]
Hat tip: Drell’s Descants. Predictably, traditionalist commenters, both there and at Tiber-swimmer Alvin Kimmel’s Pontifications, are getting exercised about the very idea that the unwashed might come to the communion rail.
NOTES
[1] John 1.35-42 says that Andrew, brother of Peter, was a follower of John the Baptizer. Tom Roberts suggests
that we can therefore assume that at least Andrew had been baptized by
the Baptizer. But it’s not clear much weight we can give to the
Johannine version of Jesus’s calling of Andrew and Peter as disciples,
given that the Synoptics tell the tale in a strikingly-different manner
(Mt 4.18-20, Mk 1.16-20, Lk 5.1-11). One wonders whether the author
of the Fourth Gospel was subtly trying to put down Peter — cf. Jn
20.3-4, which claims, contrary to Lk 24.12, that it was John the son of
Zebedee, not Peter, who was first to enter arrive at the empty tomb.
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