Darrell Fields - The Seed of a Nation: Rediscovering America

Author Darrell Fields takes you on a journey to pre-Revolutionary America to uncover the momentous and often tragic events that laid the moral and ethical foundation for the social experiment America would become. His work is gripping, provocative, insightful, and relevant as 21st century America seeks to emerge as a just and caring multicultural society not prone to repeating the injustices of the past. The Seed of a Nation communicates William Penn's vision for a new nation in which the values of justice, liberty, and equality would prevail and describes why that vision is yet to be fulfilled.

Dr. William J. Brown
College of Communication and the Arts
Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA

Now is the time to cleanse and heal the foundations. God has been restoring our understanding of priestly mediation over nations and peoples, a clear word has come from the prophets and Bible teachers, the only question is, will we obey God? The first step is an encounter with God's heart, the second is to honestly uncover and appraise the story of the land in His presence. Everything now depends on the work of godly researchers.

In The Seed of a Nation, Darrell Fields has given us an outstanding example of scholastic integrity combined with prophetic passion. Understanding the story of Pennsylvania is profoundly important when considering the spiritual battle for America as a whole. This small state contains redemptive potentials in its foundations like few others and a story of modern heroism and sacrifice is beginning to unfold that could instruct us all.

John Dawson
Founder, International Reconciliation Coalition
Author, Healing America's Wounds
Ventura, CA

The Seed Of A Nation is an excellent book that opens up a rich well of American history. It is a key to opening the blessings of God on a whole nation. From the root of William Penn and the land where my forefathers landed in the 1700's, a shoot will spring up. Read the book and dig the well.

Lou Engle
President, The Call
Author, Digging the Wells of Revival

It is my firm conviction that the destiny of this nation lies in the commission given to William Penn. The Lord has raised up Darrell Fields for such a time as this to research and bring forward these truths. As you read this great book you will be inspired to dig the wells of destiny as found in The Seed of a Nation.

James W. Goll
Ministry to the Nations
Author, The Lost Art of Intercession,
Wasted On Jesus, and 20 other books and study guides

The Seed of a Nation is a thoroughly researched and fascinating account of William Penn's efforts to establish a Holy Experiment in Pennsylvaniaa vision of governance grounded in faith and operating on the principles of tolerance and respect for all. Darrell's focus on Penn's relations with the early inhabitants of Penn's Woods does not shortchange the Native American perspective. Unlike other histories of the period, this book is informed with a faith that must be very close to the faith that guided Penn himself.

Pennsylvania Senator Stewart J. Greenleaf

Excellent book! The Seed of a Nation is a must read for every Pennsylvanian and for everyone who cares about the future of our nation. May we take responsibility before the Lord and truly repent for not honoring the covenants of our ancestors. I encourage you to read each page prayerfully with an open heart before the Lord. Thank you Darrell, for this timely book.

Larry Kreider
International Dir. of DOVE Christian Fellowship Intl.
Author, House to House; The Cry for Spiritual Fathers and Mothers
Ephrata, PA

The Seed Of A Nation is an incredible look at an almost forgotten chapter in America's spiritual and national heritagethe founding of Pennsylvania. Darrell Fields' incisive analysis of this states origins and their affect on American history, is essential reading for anyone who takes seriously their responsibility to pray for the United States.

Jim Laffoon
Every Nation Ministries
Nashville, TN

Broken covenants result in curses (2 Samuel 21). More than 800 treaties (solemn covenants) with American Indians were made. Not one was kept! How much repentance, by how many, will be required to set America free? Repentances must become concrete and specific. Darrell Fields' book details, in historical clarity, what needs repentance in Pennsylvania and the surrounding states, and thus America. Whoever reads can not help but shed tears of guilt and shamegodly sorrow that produces earnestness and zeal for repentance and restitution (2 Corinthians 7:11). On the other hand The Seed of a Nation rings a clarion bell of celebration, for it reveals not only seeds of evil for repentance but the historical fact that the seed of faith, with all the wondrous fruits of the Spiritlove, respect, trust, admiration, gentleness and forgivenessis just as deeply rooted in the foundations of our country. The questions of the book resoundwho will respond? And which foundation shall be allowed to stand as that which governs our destiny? Only the readers' replies can tell.

John Sandford
Elijah House, Inc.
Author, Transformation of the Inner Man
Hayden, Idaho

The Seed of a Nation is a wake up call to America. Over the last several years the Church has been repenting for the iniquitous ways of our unrighteous forefathers. The question Darrell Fields is asking, Do we have the courage and faith to walk in the ways of America's righteous fathers? William Penn understood his covenant with God and could therefore be God's ambassador of extending His covenant to the indigenous people of this land. Darrell has made it clear that God's blessings upon America depend upon keeping our covenant with Him. The evidence of which is reflected in our keeping covenant with others. The blood of innocent people through breaking covenant with God and those He created in His image defiles this land. The Native Americans know that more than their white brothers. Our hope now lies in the ever living and powerful blood of Christ to reconcile and restore.

Jean Steffenson
President, Native American Resource Network
Castle Rock, CO

Darrell Fields' book is a must read for intercessors and all who are pursuing national revival. It uncovers important yet neglected dynamics in the spiritual and ethical history of Pennsylvania. Much of America's destiny has found its inception or turning points in the Keystone State of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Valley Forge and Gettysburg are well known crucibles in our history. Lesser known is the treacherous and unredressed treatment of the Native American peoples. As you read this tragic story, you cannot help but wonder if some of the keys to national revival and healing of racial injustices may hinge on God's agenda for Pennsylvania. This book will inspire you to cry out to God for mercy and justice to come together.

Charles Stock
Senior Pastor, Life Center
Harrisburg, PA

As a Lakota man, I was encouraged to read how William Penn lived a life that truly reflected the person of Jesus Christ and Biblical faith to the First Nations people of North America. His genuine love for Jesus and for Native people stands in stark contrast to the greed, injustice and genocide that so often reflected the motives and attitudes of his fellow European immigrants. It inspired hope in my heart for a better tomorrow. The Seed of a Nation will help you feel the painful journey we have been on as co-inhabitants of this land. Darrell Fields does a beautiful job painting pictures of what the founding of America was really like from a First Nations perspective. I highly recommend this book. It is a book of healing. My heart was touched in a very deep way and I now understand better the purpose that God had in mind for the inhabitants of these lands called America and Canada.