At some point, our beloved pets will die and this book is able to empathize with students. With his wife, Lily, and their two children seated in the pews, Charles Barrett begins to baptize Lola, baby girl of James and Nan MacNally. Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third … The world has suffered disasters that have reduced the population, forcing the survivors to build settlements in South and Central America. The Dearly Beloved. It’s the mid-1960s, and we’re inside Third Presbyterian Church in Lower Manhattan. The wealthy believe the Victorian time period is perfect and have adopted its … At the climax of The Dearly Beloved arrives a christening. The Beloved Dearly is a wonderful book about a young boy who starts a business on pet funerals. God answered prayers about being a better friend, or being able to get a good grade on a test. His friends join him in his business endeavor. The Dearly Beloved. Dearly, Beloved is set in the year 2195. Those were worldly things, not sacred. I enjoyed this book because it was able to add humor to serious and sad situations. ― Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved “Nan had known, as a child, that God did not answer prayers for more candy or new shoes.