A Demon’s Advice on Prayer

Recently, I began re-reading CS Lewis’s classic, The Screwtape Letters.  For the uninitiated, Screwtape is a series of letters in which a senior demon, Screwtape, instructs a junior demon, Wormwood, on the finer points of capturing a human soul.  The letters begin when Wormwood’s subject is an atheist; they end after Wormwood’s subject becomes a Christian and later…